Folk Emerging

I've been waiting a long time for a game like this and this one does not disappoint. The one thing I'm not a huge fan of is the lack of consequences from combat. I feel like you should lose more people from both winning and losing. Maybe that's by design though. Either way I think this game is worth it and I hope it continues to be updated.

Fresh take on turn based strategy. Glad I found it. Love the migrating aspect of the bands (cities in 4x games) and world setting (bronze age is very interesting topic to me). You cant expect civ level of complexity, but it sure is fun to roam the map and look for a place to eventually settle. With som skirmishes along the way and tinkering the food/happiness/military/items aspects of each band, it gave me enough agenda for each turn, but never overwhelmed me with tons of things to do like in bigger 4x games, where you later on need to manage miriads of things. - dont get me wrong, I love complex games, but this one is very dynamic/fast and I found I personally like it very much. My only cons was that sometimes, it seems too short to me - when I finaly reach interesting stuff like bronzeworking or urbanization, i usually already win, so no point in doing them. But recent (16.9.2026) update may have addressed this issue - haven't tried it out yet. My suggestions Maybe add some brutal event on turn 100/200 (or sometime in late-mid/late game), that will hinder empire in terms of population. This event even can be customized in game setup menu - this may prolong the game and encourage the player to utilize late game tech more - ie. - some special "ice age", that will half your population globally accross bands or something similar, that will give us oportunity to properly play with late game tech... Some scripted events of some "sea people" raid - that will force you to focus on military side of thing in late game. Give them proper randomized army composition that will test players ability in military terms. As of now, I seldomly find usage for defensive structures or urban tiles - they are not necessary to win, and on hardest diff I usually have to skip them in order to keep up with score - focus on festivals instead. In regards to military, I think there is also scouting/mobility problem - lot of times I wanted to attack strongest tribe to ensure victory, but It takes a lot of time to localize them if you are unlucky (or resort to save scumming..). Maybe sharing map info should be a good thing to add to diplomacy? Or some scouting thing. I know horses can help, but forests are still one tile per turn. There is also a trading exploit - I can trade 20+ wood for items, then wait until AI band moves -> wood will be over their limit, so it stays in place and I ll recolect the traded wood back. Maybe consider adding check for AI tribe to not go over their carrying capacity when trading... TLDR: As of now, I am missing challenge. Dont take me wrong, it took me some time to master this game and I loved it, though my hearth crave for more :)

Not worth the money. It gets stale really fast.. A lot of stuff seems to not make a difference whatsoever (people Stats for example). The combat has some quirks (why do the archers need to make a step forward and lose a turn when fighting a melee char ?)